Nothing like last minute work to get your creative juices flowing. It was the day before their Halloween party and we still had not discussed their costume. When I asked them this was their responses: Captain Hook, Peter Pan and a Pirate. I had no time to sew nor was I in the mood to sew, this is what I came up with for Captain Hook. After the party, it went into their costume bin and it still gets used for their pretend play.

What you need is a T-shirt you don’t mind cutting up or you can use a polo.

You can leave the sleeves on but we wanted it to be a sleeveless coat.

Supplies:

Glue

Red Tee or polo

Gold ribbon, Black ribbon

Black felt for the bottom trim1. Cut the tee as shown in the picture above. Down the middle and cut the sleeves off.

2. I used the black felt for the bottom part of Captain hooks coat. I glued the black felt to the bottom of the Tee.3. Then glue the black ribbon down the middle. This gave it a more clean look and it covered up the raw edges.4. Next add gold ribbon and glue it over the black felt and the t-shirt. Also, glue small strips of gold ribbon in the middle area as shown above.

This captain hook costume took me about 20 minutes to complete. The pirate hat was a lot harder to make and my son didn’t even end up using it.

What a clever idea to cut up a jacket! Awesome job. My weekly linky party–One Creative Weekend–has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit “One Creative Weekend” on OneCreativeMommy.com (open every Fri-Wed) and link up this idea and anything else you’d like to share. (You can include non-Halloween posts as well, but feel free to link up as many Halloween-themed posts as you like.)

Oh my goodness I totally made this for my brother who was visting from out of state and wanted to fit our family theme it turned out amazing! Although I used permanent double sided tape to put it together because I didn’t want to mess with glue. Thank you so much!!!!!

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